Scott Esk on Inflation
1:38

Oklahoma political candidate Scott Esk shares his wisdom with the world on a lot of issues ahead of his election, this time on inflation. Courtesy Youtube/imscobol

news.com.au

12 Jun 2014

News/World

A TEA Party candidate has declared his support for the stoning to death of gay people, saying “we would be totally right to do it.”

Scott Esk, a candidate for Oklahoma’s House of Representatives, says on his website that Americans’ rights come from God — not government — and pushes a pro-gun, pro-life and anti-tax agenda typical of the far-right wing of the Republican party.

But his extreme views on homosexuality, as reported by MooreDaily, are raising eyebrows.

The controversy began when Esk posted to Facebook verses from the Old Testament that referred to gays being punished.

Another user asked: “So just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”

Esk responded: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it. That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realise, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

He later added: “ I never said I would author legislation to put homosexuals to death, but I didn’t have a problem with it.”

When MooreDaily contacted Esk for clarification, he claimed not to remember the Facebook comments but offered a statement.

“What I will tell you right now is that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” Esk reportedly said. “And in that time, it was totally just, it came directly from God. I have no plans to, you know, reinstitute that in Oklahoma law. I do have some very huge moral misgivings about those kinds of sins.”